K. R. May

2.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
23 papers, 1.4k citations indexed

About

K. R. May is a scholar working on Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Environmental Engineering and Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine. According to data from OpenAlex, K. R. May has authored 23 papers receiving a total of 1.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 9 papers in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, 5 papers in Environmental Engineering and 4 papers in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine. Recurrent topics in K. R. May's work include Indoor Air Quality and Microbial Exposure (9 papers), Air Quality Monitoring and Forecasting (3 papers) and Air Quality and Health Impacts (3 papers). K. R. May is often cited by papers focused on Indoor Air Quality and Microbial Exposure (9 papers), Air Quality Monitoring and Forecasting (3 papers) and Air Quality and Health Impacts (3 papers). K. R. May collaborates with scholars based in India, United States and Slovenia. K. R. May's co-authors include Robert H. Clifford, H. A. Druett and G. J. Harper and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences and Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society.

In The Last Decade

K. R. May

23 papers receiving 1.2k citations

Hit Papers

align trajectories

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

The collison nebulizer: Description, performance and application

1973 352 citations K. R. May Journal of Aerosol Science profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
K. R. May India	17	442	320	184	180	162	23	1.4k
Vidmantas Ulevičius Lithuania	20	1.0k 2.3×	406 1.3×	98 0.5×	85 0.5×	537 3.3×	84	1.7k
Lawrence D. Syzdek United States	13	217 0.5×	69 0.2×	140 0.8×	22 0.1×	250 1.5×	19	1.1k
A. A. Andersen United States	5	890 2.0×	368 1.1×	36 0.2×	72 0.4×	61 0.4×	8	1.3k
P. H. Gregory United States	30	997 2.3×	234 0.7×	49 0.3×	1.4k 7.7×	250 1.5×	61	3.6k
Richard J. Thomas United Kingdom	25	258 0.6×	350 1.1×	46 0.3×	233 1.3×	124 0.8×	65	2.3k
Linda D. Stetzenbach United States	22	878 2.0×	217 0.7×	71 0.4×	248 1.4×	43 0.3×	41	2.1k
Chih-Shan Li Taiwan	32	1.4k 3.2×	752 2.4×	31 0.2×	68 0.4×	185 1.1×	61	2.4k
Jing Qian China	14	1.2k 2.7×	388 1.2×	174 0.9×	67 0.4×	56 0.3×	41	1.9k
Bruce Lighthart United States	31	1.1k 2.6×	186 0.6×	34 0.2×	465 2.6×	377 2.3×	60	3.0k
R. Ehrlich United States	22	762 1.7×	344 1.1×	15 0.1×	50 0.3×	43 0.3×	84	1.5k

Countries citing papers authored by K. R. May

Since Specialization

Citations

This map shows the geographic impact of K. R. May's research. It shows the number of citations coming from papers published by authors working in each country. You can also color the map by specialization and compare the number of citations received by K. R. May with the expected number of citations based on a country's size and research output (numbers larger than one mean the country cites K. R. May more than expected).

Fields of papers citing papers by K. R. May

Since Specialization

Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by K. R. May. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by K. R. May. The network helps show where K. R. May may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of K. R. May

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of K. R. May. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of K. R. May based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with K. R. May. K. R. May is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

Sort: Min cites: Since: Top N: Style:

20 of 20 papers shown

1.

May, K. R.. (1982). A personal note on the history of the cascade impactor. Journal of Aerosol Science. 13(1). 37–47. 15 indexed citations

2.

May, K. R., et al.. (1976). Sampling techniques for large windborne particles. Journal of Aerosol Science. 7(1). 53–IN6. 40 indexed citations

3.

May, K. R.. (1975). Aerosol impaction jets. Journal of Aerosol Science. 6(6). 403–411. 31 indexed citations

4.

May, K. R.. (1973). The collison nebulizer: Description, performance and application. Journal of Aerosol Science. 4(3). 235–243. 352 indexed citations breakdown →

5.

May, K. R.. (1972). Comments on “Retardation of Water Drop Evaporation with Monomolecular Surface Films”. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences. 29(4). 784–785. 6 indexed citations

6.

May, K. R.. (1969). Prolongation of Microbiological Air Sampling by a Monolayer on Agar Gel. Applied Microbiology. 18(3). 513–514. 10 indexed citations

7.

May, K. R., et al.. (1969). Toxicity of Open Air to a Variety of Microorganisms. Nature. 221(5186). 1146–1147. 31 indexed citations

8.

May, K. R. & H. A. Druett. (1968). A Microthread Technique for Studying the Viability of Microbes in a Simulated Airborne State. Journal of General Microbiology. 51(3). 353–366. 61 indexed citations

9.

Druett, H. A. & K. R. May. (1968). Unstable Germicidal Pollutant in Rural Air. Nature. 220(5165). 395–396. 43 indexed citations

10.

May, K. R. & Robert H. Clifford. (1967). The Impaction of Aerosol Particles on Cylinders, Spheres, Ribbons and Discs. The Annals of Occupational Hygiene. 192 indexed citations

11.

May, K. R.. (1966). Multistage liquid impinger. Bacteriological Reviews. 30(3). 559–570. 106 indexed citations

12.

May, K. R.. (1966). Spinning-top homogeneous aerosol generator with shockproof mounting. Journal of Scientific Instruments. 43(11). 841–842. 57 indexed citations

13.

May, K. R.. (1965). A new graticule for particle counting and sizing. Journal of Scientific Instruments. 42(7). 500–501. 35 indexed citations

14.

May, K. R.. (1964). Calibration of a Modified Andersen Bacterial Aerosol Sampler. Applied Microbiology. 12(1). 37–43. 29 indexed citations

15.

May, K. R.. (1961). Fog‐droplet sampling using a modified impactor technique. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society. 87(374). 535–548. 41 indexed citations

16.

May, K. R.. (1959). Detecting Volatile Airborne Droplets. Nature. 183(4663). 742–743. 10 indexed citations

17.

May, K. R. & G. J. Harper. (1957). The Efficiency of Various Liquid Impinger Samplers in Bacterial Aerosols. Occupational and Environmental Medicine. 14(4). 287–297. 149 indexed citations

18.

May, K. R.. (1953). XII.—A HYDRAULIC MICROMANIPULATOR. Journal of the Royal Microscopical Society. 73(3). 140–147. 2 indexed citations

19.

May, K. R. & H. A. Druett. (1953). The Pre-Impinger: A Selective Aerosol Sampler. Occupational and Environmental Medicine. 10(3). 142–151. 38 indexed citations

20.

Druett, H. A. & K. R. May. (1952). A wind tunnel for the study of airborne infections. Journal of Hygiene. 50(1). 69–81. 21 indexed citations

Rankless uses publication and citation data sourced from OpenAlex, an open and comprehensive bibliographic database. While OpenAlex provides broad and valuable coverage of the global research landscape, it—like all bibliographic datasets—has inherent limitations. These include incomplete records, variations in author disambiguation, differences in journal indexing, and delays in data updates. As a result, some metrics and network relationships displayed in Rankless may not fully capture the entirety of a scholar's output or impact.

Explore authors with similar magnitude of impact